I’ve spent many years researching and writing about the uses people make of plants
and what plants mean to the people who use them.
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Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera Photo: © Aaron Parker
With its profusion of white blossom, swarming with insects on a warm day, the cherry plum (also known as the myrobalan plum) is one of the earliest trees to flower here in Spring. This hardy vigorous relative of the cultivated plum, now naturalised in Britain, is often used as a rootstock for other prunus species and makes an excellent windbreak for protecting other trees.